Eating disorder symptomatology and gender role orientation

Hepp, Urs; Spindler, Anja; Milos, Gabriella

doi:10.1002/eat.20087

Cited by 91 publications

(34 citation statements)

References 15 publications

(21 reference statements)

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…In a similar vein, it has also been suggested that an androgynous gender role orientation, where a woman achieves a balance between masculine and feminine behaviors, has a protective effect on eating problems (Heilbrun and Mulqueen 1987). Hepp et al (2005) supported both of these hypotheses and found that women who endorsed an androgynous gender role orientation tended to score lower on eating disorder pathology whereas undifferentiated women scored higher.…”

Section: Gender Roles and Disordered Eatingmentioning

confidence: 66%

Perceived Gender Role Prescriptions in Schools, the Superwoman Ideal, and Disordered Eating Among Adolescent Girls

2007

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

In this study of 866 adolescent girls from US private schools we examined disordered eating. Based on the feminist theory of conflicting gender roles, we hypothesized that girls with greater disordered eating attitudes would be more likely to: (1) perceive more conflicting gender role prescriptions at school, and (2) endorse the superwoman ideal. We also predicted that the mechanism through which perceptions of conflicting gender role prescriptions at school influenced disordered eating was an individual's endorsement of the superwoman ideal. The data supported this mediation model. Girls with perceptions of more intense behavioral prescriptions for excellence in academics, appearance, dating, and the androgynous gender role, tended to endorse the superwoman ideal which, in turn, was associated with greater disordered eating.

show abstract

Section: Gender Roles and Disordered Eatingmentioning

confidence: 66%

Perceived Gender Role Prescriptions in Schools, the Superwoman Ideal, and Disordered Eating Among Adolescent Girls

2007

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…They concluded that this pattern could be an indicator of low self-esteem or bulimic patients' difficulties with self-definition. Similarly, in a study carried out on 68 women with anorexia nervosa and 123 women with bulimia nervosa (Hepp et al, 2005), a negative relationship between masculinity and Drive for Thinness, Bulimia and Body Dissatisfaction Eating Disorder Inventory scales was, while femininity was not associated with unhealthy eating attitudes and behaviors. However, when masculine and feminine traits were considered together, in term of the four gender role orientation categories suggested by Bem (1977), subjects with high levels of "androgyny" reported lower levels of eating disorder symptomatology than "undifferentiated" individuals, who showed higher levels of symptoms.…”

Section: Gender Role Orientation and Eating Disorders: The Role Of Mamentioning

confidence: 94%

Biological Gender, Sexual Orientation and Gender Role in Eating Disorders

Cotrufo¹,

Iannaccone²,

Cella³

2012

Relevant Topics in Eating Disorders

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

“…Higher levels of femininity, on the BSRI, were identified as a risk factor for the development of eating disorders, as judged by the Eating Attitudes Test, and masculinity as a protective factor in Meyer, Blisset and Oldfield's study (2001). A study by Hepp, Spindler, and Milos (2005) did not find a correlation between femininity and the core eating disorder symptomatology but did between femininity and 'lower levels of unspecific psychopathological symptoms related to ED' (Hepp et al, 2005: 230). As with other studies (Lancelot & Kaslow, 1994;Murnen & Smolak 1997), Hepp et al (2005) did, however, find a correlation between higher levels of masculinity and lower levels of ED symptoms.…”

Section: Gender Identity Scales and Anmentioning

confidence: 99%

The quantification of gender: Anorexia nervosa and femininity

Till

2011

Health Sociology Review

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The ways in which Anorexia Nervosa (AN) has been described and explained has differed drastically over time although since it was first named in 1874 it has been primarily associated with women and girls it is argued in this paper that it came to be more fundamentally associated with femininity due to certain disciplinary changes in the psy sciences. The influential psychiatrist Hilde Bruch lamented the loss in clarity of the clinical picture that was the result of psychoanalytic interpretations, to remedy this she reformulated AN into a pathology that was the result of the individual being too determined by external influences. Bruch's changes increased the emphasis that psychiatrists placed on the relationship between women and their social context and the lack of individual autonomy that many felt. Feminist writers adapted Bruch's theory to suggest that patriarchal culture was colonizing the lives of women and that social rather than individual change needed to occur. Psychiatrists subsequently developed scales for assessing gender identity which switched the emphasis back onto individuals and rendered gender as an individualised, quantifiable, manipulable object. When reified and individualised in this fashion it became more legitimate to discuss femininity as causative of, and masculinity as a protection against, AN.

show abstract

Eating disorder symptomatology and gender role orientation

Abstract: Femininity and masculinity, although independent traits, should not be considered isolated from each other in the context of ED. In females with ED, androgyny appears to be associated with lower levels of ED symptoms. Self-esteem may play a mediating role in this association.

Cited by 91 publications

References 15 publications

Perceived Gender Role Prescriptions in Schools, the Superwoman Ideal, and Disordered Eating Among Adolescent Girls

Perceived Gender Role Prescriptions in Schools, the Superwoman Ideal, and Disordered Eating Among Adolescent Girls

Biological Gender, Sexual Orientation and Gender Role in Eating Disorders

The quantification of gender: Anorexia nervosa and femininity

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About